Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surely Aziz, whose moods flow like water, who desires to please his friends even at the price of lying, who lives closer to his feelings than ever the British can, whose corroding fear that he has no dignity almost ruins him and provides Forster with his subtlest and angriest plea against the subjection of a race...
...because it showed what a botch the British made of India. Perhaps now we shall understand Forster's book better. It talks about India, and blames the British for acting like gods; they were not big enough-and who is?-to rule another people. But it also enters a plea for tolerance, good temper, and sympathy-qualities which are not enough in this world, but still are something...
Giesler's client Robert Mitchum, ar rested for smoking marijuana, also went to jail. Although Giesler was fairly sure that Mitchum had been framed, he counseled against a not-guilty plea in order to avoid the added publicity of a drawn-out jury trial. "My handling of the Mitchum and Wanger cases saved the motion-picture industry much grief," Giesler said much later in his as-told-to book with Saturday Evening Post Writer Pete Martin, "but they didn't appreciate it then. They don't appreciate it now. It has always been the industry...
Supporting Hamilton's plea for a more thoughtful approach to the South's problems, John Nelson of the Atlanta Constitution charged that the northern press and the national news media have tended to report sensationally rather than accurately...
...legal and moral responsibility of him who delivers the victim to his death," said the judges, "is, in our opinion, no smaller, and may even be greater than the liability of him who does the victim to death." Similarly, the judgment dismissed as "of no avail" Eichmann's plea that he had only acted on orders from his government. This could not exempt "from their personal criminal responsibility those who gave, and those who carried out the order...